Proverbs 15:25

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Summary

Proverbs 15:25

The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.

Destroy

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Destroy

Evil-doers are overturned and never seen again, but the house of upright men will keep its place.

The house of the sinner will be overturned, but the tent of the upright man will do well.

Let your wrath be overflowing; let your eyes see all the sons of pride, and make them low.

Why do you take pride in wrongdoing, lifting yourself up against the upright man all the day?

Though the Lord is high, he sees those who are low; and he has knowledge from far off of those who are lifted up.

For the day of the Lord of armies is coming on all the pride of men, and on all who are high and lifted up;

But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became hard with pride, he was put down from his place as king, and they took his glory from him:

And in the same way, let the younger men be ruled by the older ones. Let all of you put away pride and make yourselves ready to be servants: for God is a hater of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low.

But

For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, strong in power and greatly to be feared, who has no respect for any man's position and takes no rewards:

A father to those who have no father, a judge of the widows, is God in his holy place.

The Lord takes care of those who are in a strange land; he gives help to the widow and to the child who has no father; but he sends destruction on the way of sinners.

The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.